About the team:  

At the Capco Technology Delivery Center, we are dedicated to the financial services industries. Our professionals combine innovative thinking with unrivalled industry and domain expertise to offer our clients consulting expertise, complex technology and package integration, transformation delivery, and managed services, to move their organizations forward. Through our collaborative and efficient approach, we help our clients successfully innovate, increase revenue, manage risk and regulatory change, reduce costs, and enhance controls. Our teams stay at the forefront of industry trends and technologies that are driving innovation. From strategy to launch, we are adept at delivering across the full product lifecycle.   

About the Job:  

As an AI Transformation Managing Principal, you will guide financial services clients through their AI transformation journeys—defining strategy, shaping opportunities, and leading delivery in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

This is a senior consulting role that blends AI strategy, business transformation, and client engagement. You’ll work closely with executives to envision how AI and GenAI can redefine their businesses, and with technology and architecture teams to bring those visions to life.

What You’ll Get to Do:  

AI & GenAI Strategy and Transformation

• Lead the design and execution of enterprise-wide AI transformation programs, ensuring alignment with business strategy and measurable impact.


• Define roadmaps and operating models for adopting foundation models, agentic AI, and automation capabilities.


• Advise senior stakeholders on how to embed AI across core business areas such as risk, compliance, trading, and customer experience.

Generative AI Enablement & Solution Delivery

• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to design and deliver scalable GenAI and agentic solutions that meet enterprise needs.


• Help define solution patterns and standards that balance innovation with operational integrity, security, and compliance.


• Lead Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and pilots to demonstrate AI value in real-world scenarios and accelerate adoption.

Foundation Models & Applied AI

• Stay fluent in the capabilities of foundation models (LLMs, vision, multimodal) to guide appropriate selection and use for financial services contexts.


• Work with data science and platform teams to tailor and deploy models that drive automation, decision support, and insight generation.


• Promote responsible AI practices around fairness, transparency, and auditability.

Consulting & Business Development

• Shape and sell AI-led transformation programs, partnering with senior leaders to identify opportunities and craft compelling proposals.


• Build and maintain executive client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor who bridges business goals with technical possibilities.


• Contribute to Capco’s growth through thought leadership, go-to-market initiatives, and client workshops that position us as a GenAI transformation leader.

Leadership & Change Enablement

• Partner with delivery, data, and technology teams to turn strategy into scalable solutions, ensuring clarity, accountability, and success metrics.


• Mentor consultants and emerging AI specialists, building capability across teams and clients.


• Represent Capco at industry events, panels, and forums as an advocate for practical, value-driven AI transformation.

 What You’ll Bring with You:  

• 10+ years of experience in consulting and technology-led transformation, including at least 3 years in AI/ML or Generative AI strategy.


• Proven track record leading AI initiatives for financial services organizations, from ideation through execution.


• Demonstrated success in business development, including shaping proposals and selling transformation programs to executive stakeholders.


• Strong understanding of how foundation models and GenAI can be applied to banking, capital markets, insurance, and fintech operations.


• Experience collaborating with architecture, engineering, and data teams to deliver complex technology programs.


• Excellent client engagement, communication, and storytelling skills—able to bridge business vision with AI potential.


• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Data Science, Business, or similar).


• Willingness to work in the Chicago office 3 days/week.

Why Capco?  

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services. We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change. As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation.   

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering.   

Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset, and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business.   

We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.  

We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.  

Ready to Take the Next Step?  

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.  

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